CaseFireball2009
Ridgecrest, CA, USA
Super Bright explosion after object hits the desert ground
Report quality: Moderate48/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (58 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-11-17
- Where
- Ridgecrest, CA, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 15 seconds
- Geo
- 35.622, -117.671 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-ridgecrest-ca-2009-d84553
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In context
- This is one of 37 reports logged in Ridgecrest, CA.
- This case is one of 647 California reports filed in 2009.
- Fireball craft made up 5.5% of 2000s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Report
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